today is the one year anniversary of my arrival in japan ( Read more... )

back from Tokyo Orientation! things there went really well i think. there weren't very many folks at the vegetarian seminar, but that's okay, since the elementary one i did was packed! that was what i really went there to do, after all. i got some good feedback from the new JETs, so that made me really happy, as that was where my passion in ( Read more... )

Ah, just got back in from the summer festival in Ichikawa, the town I work in. Great fun dressing up (in yet another new yukata...don't you have enough yet, mary ellen?!) and seeing my students, most of them dressed up too. Ate fun festival foods, saw some cute fireworks, and took lots of great pictures. if you're interested, they can be viewed ( Read more... )

why didn't i know there was a new john vanderslice album! geez!! i gotta stop being busy and keep up with this stuff!

I've just finished watching Kon Satoshi's latest film, パプリカ (Paprika). Once again, he does not disappoint ( Read more... )

so as i mentioned in this post, i recently visited a very amusing t-shirt store. the store is called Starvations, and i bought two shirts there. one of them has a picture of guitar, a couple music notes and says "SPECIAL CHORD". robin had recognized instantly this was a shirt i needed to have, and she was right! and of course, in the rockin' ( Read more... )

despite my plans to stay in yesterday, things got re-arranged, and i ended up going out into Osaka with the lovely Barbara. we had a good time even in the rain! the most amazing thing though was that she took me to a place called Slices, a Canadian restaurant where i had the most amazing meal i've had in a while ( Read more... )

there's a typhoon coming our way. right now it's in Okinawa, and it should be arriving in the Kansai area sometime tomorrow afternoon.

bring it!

in unrelated good news, the score is now:

M.E.: 1 (won), Gokiburi: 0 (dead).

oh yeah.

Well, it seems the results are in, and rockin' out icon 2 is the winner by a hair (7/8/7, very tight race indeed!). A big thank you to all who voted, and if you didn't win this time, you'll have another chance in four years when this one leaves office ( Read more... )